In a Grand Rapids, Minn., art gallery, an exhibit of 22 chalk pastel portraits by artist Mary Myers Corwin depicts the many faces of man's best friend. Their sparkling eyes and noble expressions ...

Samuel Little drew the portrait from memory nearly two decades ... Investigators encouraged him to do so, and using a mix of chalk, pastel pencils and watercolors he has drawn 16 in their final ...

A good portrait has some of the soul within ... Picking up what looks like a piece of pink chalk, Tiessen said pastels are more permanent than oils, if properly framed and handled.

Known colloquially as street art, the ephemeral images the nation’s leading chalk artists create on concrete with soft pastels often ... three-dimensional portraits he now creates on sidewalks ...

It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each ...

Unlike charcoal or red and white chalk, however ... That’s why the pictures in “Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe,” which will be on display through Aug. 14, are all from ...

Watch more than 200 artists transform city streets into vibrant masterpieces at this year's Denver Chalk Art Festival. Zoom ...

Two chalk and pastel studies of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that once belonged to a 19th-century Dutch king will be up for auction next month. The portraits of the heads of St ...

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